This page is describing the issue of newspaper companies business being transferred to solely online articles. It describes how even though there has been worry about the downfall of newspapers they can still be salvaged.... http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4427

This page compares the use of online newspapers to the older form of newspapers (paper) http://blog.comscore.com/2009/10/newspapers__online_audiences.html

This article found at http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/27/business/fi-newspapers27 shows the decline in newspaper subscriptions and where it is leading the newspaper world.

Lastly, Shayla Thiel describes the history of online newspapers at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0004.110

All of these websites I found to be the most helpful out of the majority of my research. Most research I found was about an online newspaper or was an actual online newspaper, which isn't what I'm looking for. These pages however, give me a better idea of what the differences are between modern news, news in the past, how we identify with it, and what the future of newspapers may look like.